In fact, the very name amphioxus is from Greek words meaning "both-pointed," with reference to the two ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

It's a long way from amphioxus, it's a long way to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient history] Reference

A tadpole-like beastie similar to the chordate amphioxus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It's a long, long way from amphioxus, but we all came from there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient history] Reference

For one thing, the amphioxus turns out to have not much of a head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Presence of prophenoloxidase in the humoral fluid of amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri tsingtauense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe vs Sea Squirts - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

In going from amphioxus to jawless fish to jawed fish to land vertebrates we see an increase in complexity of the clotting cascade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe's Test] Reference

The chordate amphioxus in modern taxonomy, Branchiostoma and its relatives, a protovertebrate that looks a bit like a minature eel, does clot its haemolymph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe vs Sea Squirts - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

This is not dissimilar to the trypsin/prophenyloxidase system, in amphioxus, where a trypsin activates an enzyme prophenyloxidase to make gluggy melanin at wound sites 17.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe vs Sea Squirts - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Compare the atrial cavity and coelom of amphioxus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Describe, with a diagram, the circulation of amphioxus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

What structures have been regarded, as renal organs in amphioxus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Figure 9 ii. shows all the essential points of the structure of amphioxus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Compare the genital organs of amphioxus with those of a higher vertebrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Describe the minute structure of the blood of the rabbit, frog, and amphioxus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

USA, to collect samples and do experiments during the spawning seasons of amphioxus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Describe the notochord of amphioxus, and point out its differences from the vertebrate notochord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

In the amphioxus the notochord persists and forms the only representative of a skeleton in that animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 1. Development of the Skeleton] Reference

Hence, in considering the structure of amphioxus, we have three series of cells from which its tissues are developed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

If we compare the nervous system of amphioxus with that of any vertebrate, we find at once a number of striking differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Describe, with diagrams, the nervous system of amphioxus, and compare its nervous axis, in detail, with that of a vertebrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Describe fully the means by which respiration is effected in the following animals: -- frog, amphioxus, rabbit, and dog-fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

The young amphioxus has, at this stage, which is called the gastrula stage, a curious parallelism with such a lowly form as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Give a short account, with illustrative figures, of the mode of formation of the primary germinal layers in amphioxus and in the frog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

The immediate ancestor of the vertebrates was either the amphioxus (lancelet) or some other notochordate animal, whose type is now extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference

It is simply a single cell, with some power of amoeboid motion, a single nucleus and nucleolus; and in amphioxus its protoplasm is clear and transparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

It's a long way from amphioxus.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's a Long Way From Amphioxus] Reference

It's a long, long way from amphioxus.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's a Long Way From Amphioxus] Reference

Pharyngobranchii (the amphioxus, or lancelet).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

The amphioxus is virtually a brainless creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

(d) the reproductive organs of the amphioxus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

See amphioxus, brontosaurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism]

"The amphioxus," she murmured, half-rising.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Angel at the Grave."] Reference

"Why, his account of the amphioxus, of course!.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Angel at the Grave."] Reference